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W. CARTER.

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Patented A.pr. 3, 1883.

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UNITED STATES- ATENT OFFICE.

YVILLIAM CARTER, OF HIGHLANDVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS.

MITTEN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 275,142, dated April 3,1883. Application filed October 11, 1882. (Model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM CARTER, of Highlandville,county of Norfolk,State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Mittens, ofwhich the following description, in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, is a specification.

My invention has for its object to simplify and cheapen the constructionof mittens; and it consists in a mitten having the constructionhereinafter described, and as pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 represents a knitted blank from which to produce myimprovedmitten, and Fig. 2 represents the same folded and united to form amitten.

In the mannfacture of a mitten in accordance with my invention I firstknit on a ribstitch machine a fiat web, a, for the wrist or top of themitten, and 1 then transfer the said flat rib-knitted web a to theneedles of an ordi nary knitting-machine having one row of needles andadapted to knit a plain flat web, and to the needles of the lattermachine I apply most of the loops of the web a or rib-top, or

those from the points 2 to 3, Fig. 1, the said loops being in number asmay be required to knit a plain flat web, I), broad enough for the palmof the mitten. Having knitted the palmweb I) to the point designated bythe dotted line x, I transfer some of the loops to adjacent needles, andby a system of narrowing produce two tabs or projections, 1) 12 eachhaving two straight edges, 5 6, and a curved edge, 7, when the saidpalm-web is removed from the needles, with open loops showing along theedges 7. I then apply to other needles of the said knitting-machine theloops of the rib-top between the points 3 and 4, and on the said needlesknit a narrow flat thumb-web, c, and when the latter is of proper lengthit is removed from the needles. Having produced a flat web-such as shownin Fig. l-it is doubled upon itself substantially in the line at, andthe edges of the same are united, by stitches made by hand or otherwise,as follows, viz: edges 5 to 5, 6 to 6, 7 to 7, 15 to 16, to the line 6,and 17 to 18 from the line 2 4. to the upper corners, 20, of therib-top. Next the edges 10 and 12 are united from the point 3 to d and6. Then the thumb-web is folded upon itself, and its edges 8 9 areunited from its free end to the point (I, afterwhichtheremainingedge,l3,ofthethumbweb is united to the edge 14 of thepalm-web I between the points 0 and 2, producing a mitten with a singleline of seam extending the length of the rib-top, as shown in Fig. 2,and on both faces of the mitten from the rib-top to the crotch of thethumb, from the crotch of the thumb to the end of the thumb, and fromthe crotch of the thumb along the inner side of the palm, and about theend of the palm to the point g, Fig. 2, in the direction of the arrowsh.

By the method of operation herein described the loops of the web, in theproduction of the mitten-blank, are transferred once less than in anyother plan known to me for knitting seamed mittens.

I claim- 1. As an improved article of manufacture, a mitten composed ofaknitted flat blank having a wrist portion, a, and independent palm andthumb portions I) c, knitted upon the wrist portion, and having each twoselvage-edges, commencing with the wrist portion and extending to theirends, the palm and thumb portions being connected each with a part ofitself at their ends most remote from the wrist to the junction of thethumb and palm portions, indicated by the lines 0 d, and then each tothe other from the lines 0 d to the junction of the palm and thumbportions with the wrist portion, the opposite edges of the wrist portionbeing stitched together in the line of the seam joining the thumb andpalm portions, the seam uniting the thumb and palm extending from thewrist portion to the lines 6 d, at the inner and outward sides of themitten, all as shown, and substantially as described.

2. The knitted blank for mittens herein shown and described, composed ofthe straight wrist portion a, straight palm portion b, end portions, 1)b and thumb portion 2.

3. The herein-described knit mitten, the

same consisting of the wrist portion, the hand portion, continuous ofthe wrist portion, and

.the thumb portion, also continuous of the wrist portion, the severalparts being seamed, as shown.

In testimony whereofI have signed myname to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM CARTER.

Vitnesses:

G. W. GREGORY, B. J. NoYEs,

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